Chapter Sixty: Three Stabs
Was there ever a time when you kept feeling that something was missing inside, as though you had forgotten something crucial, yet simply could not remember it, until something actually happened and you suddenly woke with a start?
Whether from a dream or in reality.
What had jolted Su Can awake from his dreams several times was the lingering fear that his rebirth was unreal. In reality, he had spent a while feeling that something was about to happen, yet could not remember what it was. Despite his experience of the years to come, Su Can could not account for everything; that was beyond question. The brain was not a computer that could retrieve vast stores of information from a database without error. Su Can's brain could not necessarily even remember things intimately connected with his own life over these eleven years he had gone back through, so he could no longer recall most of the details of those later years before his rebirth.
Sometimes he even suspected that his former life had been nothing but a dream, and that only now had his life truly begun. He had not been reborn; he was a prophet.
Someone harboring an enormous secret always had to become very mysterious and keep a very low profile. Su Can was just like that. He possessed a treasure trove, but he had to use it sensibly, in ways that served his own interests.
Chen Chong beating Mao Xiaoshi in front of him was not something Su Can needed to intervene in at all. With Xiao Rihua present when something like this happened, things probably would not end well for Chen Chong. Xiao Rihua might even be implicated in the consequences, and with a little more bad luck, word would get out